# Senior Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-fellow-in-intensive-care/61e9e849-67a9-4747-8332-72779511cda0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-fellow-in-intensive-care/61e9e849-67a9-4747-8332-72779511cda0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Preston Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Anaesthesia and Intensive Care - **Grade:** Senior - **Salary:** £67,325 Basic per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-08T11:41:15.455Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Preston/Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Critical_Care/Critical_Care-v8230791 - **Employer website:** https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Fellow to join our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on a permanent basis. Your work within the Critical Care Unit at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will be based at Royal Preston Hospital (RPH) & you will also be expected to provide cross cover for our second site, Chorley & South Ribble District General Hospital (CDH). There is a 34-beded critical care unit admitting over 1300 patients per year at Royal Preston Hospital, this is a mixed unit made up of level 2 & 3 beds. It has a varied case mix including General Medicine, General Surgery, Trauma, Vascular, Renal Neurosciences, Upper-Gastrointestinal and Maxillofacial Surgery. There's also an Enhanced Care Unit at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital run by 21 Consultants with an interest in Intensive Care, along with junior support staff. The unit at Preston has accreditations for all stages of Intensive Care Medicine training. The Department has undergone a period of rapid expansion, which is reflected in the age and attitude of its career grade members. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will: - Specifically adopt, in conjunction with colleagues, an active role in the planning, development and delivery of the critical care services for the Directorate. - Provide a Critical Care service across the Trust, - Participate in the trainee critical care rota on both hospital sites with additional cover during colleagues’ absence. - Assume a continuous commitment for the care of patients, even if employed less than fulltime and ensure, in consultation with colleagues, that adequate arrangements are made for leave and off duty periods. - Promote high professional standards of clinical care for patients, both through direct patient care and by the maintenance of continuing professional development. - Exercise the freedom to develop specialist elements of the services to reflect perceived priorities within available resources. - Undertake administrative duties involved with the care of his/her patients. - Promote high professional standards of clinical care of patients and the health and safety of the theatre environment. - Maintain continuing education and professional development at least to the requirements of the faculty of intensive care. As a teaching hospital, we encourage all our staff to participate in teaching and training at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We are committed to developing our teaching and academic activities and can facilitate meeting any training needs for these roles. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on: - What we can offer - Job Plan/On-call Requirements - The Team ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Health **Essential** - Meets professional health requirements in line with GMC Standards/ Good Medical Practice ### Personal **Essential** - Effective communication skills (with examples). - Proven good organisation skills (with examples). - Works well within a multidisciplinary environment. **Desirable** - Evidence of leadership skills. ### Management **Essential** - Evidence of commitment to audit and improving clinical practice/service development ### Qualifications **Essential** - Eligible for Full GMC Registration and Licence to Practice - MBBS or equivalent - Completed one year’s internship (which can be multi-specialty) or based solely in one specialty. - Minimum 3 years postgraduate training courses completed including one of the following: (delete those not relevant) - Diplomate of national Board (DNB) across all specialities. - Engaged in medical practice for three out of the last five years including the most recent 12 months. - IELTS – average score 7.5 (min 7 in each subset) or OET (B score) **Desirable** - Evidence of research and/or publications - Hold ALS / ATLS certification or equivalent ### Experience and Skills **Essential** - Have a minimum 3 years post foundation Training experience in Anaesthesia/ICM/ Medicine/Emergency medicine with Mandatory 6 months of ICM experience - Independent in insertion of Central Venous Catheters, Arterial Lines and perform Intubations. - Independently manage acutely unwell patients in critical care and provide Various organ supports. - Competent in independent airway Management. **Desirable** - Evidence of commitment to Clinical audit. - Experience in use of Ultrasound for central line insertion and perform ECHO in critical care. - Involvement in service improvement projects ### Research & Development **Essential** - Evidence of interest in personal development e.g. through research and/or publications. **Desirable** - Publications in a peer reviewed journal. ## Documents - [what we can offer you (pdf, 6.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2464) - [main recruitment pack 24 (pdf, 387.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2212) - [creating your best application (pdf, 6.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2433) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 451.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10596950) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.